>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> [I love this. After Sokal was revealed as a hoaxter, no one doubted
>> his paper was a hoax. With this, no one can really tell! So much for
>> the more rigorous truth claims of hard science.]
>>
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>Aw, come on Doug. This is a caricature. Who speaks of "hard science"?
>What do you mean by "the more rigorous truth claims of hard science"?
>This is meaningless.
As I remember the heat of the Sokal affair, there were all kinds of claims for the rigor of experimental science, which can easily tell truth from untruth, while charlatans like Derrida and Harding can pull one over on standardless humanists like Stanley A. Maybe you had to be there.
Doug